FACEBOOK AND MYSPACE?

In the Jenkins piece, there is a discussion about myspace and facebook and why it is important. Myspace and facebook are online social networks where individuals create profiles and link to other "friends" sharing their interests, identity and tastes. There are photos that are uploaded and people can view these photos if they are "friends" there are numerous communication tools, people can communicate via messages, writing on walls or commenting on status or pictures. The controversy is that these portals put youths at risk of sexual pretators and pedophiles. Teens are representing themselves through these portals as sex fiends and there is aspects of drug use and alcohol use when they are not legal. it has become grounds of much controversy!

Check this video out guys! it is great, wicked funny! relates perfectly to the facebook issue...

http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrFdOz1Mj8Q

The other article, about the Horrace Mann Issue, isputting teachers jobs at risk over teens giving them a bad rap on the online social networks like facebook and myspace. In one issue, students made fun of a woman's issue group making up a fake group "men's issues group" stating that women belong in the kitchen. Students all over the world are feeding into the online social networking hype and i can say that i do use facebook, and have seen some of the bad things that it can do to distort your brain, and when teens are growing, it is easy for them to feed into certian things, facebook and myspace are not going to change, but could potentially cahnge the youth of america as we know it!